Daisy Buchanan In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daisy Buchanan is a main character in the novel “The Great Gatsby”. Throughout the story Daisy tries to follow her heart but can’t seem to decide what she really wants. Daisy is probably the most frustrating character and ends up ruining the expectations set for the novel. In the beginning of the story she is described as beautiful charming young woman with an intriguing voice. I agreed with this until about chapter 7 when she shows her true self. In the beginning of the novel, this is how F. Scott Fitzgerald describes her... “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.” (12) Daisy’s voice is a big focus of her character, Fitzgerald even talks about her voice before her other features such as her hair. He makes her voice so prominent because Gatsby can’t seem to forget about Daisy, especially her voice. …show more content…
This did not happen; Daisy fell into the pressure of her parents and many others telling her to marry her now husband, Tom because it was more socially acceptable since both of their families are wealthy and at the time Jay was not yet very wealthy. Gatsby sent her a letter the night before her wedding and she was devastated because she still had to marry Tom even though she was still in love with Jay. This is somewhat a foreshadow of how Daisy really is because even then she chose Tom because they are both Old Money and Gatsby at that time had little money at